[Leica] photo exhibits at the Oakland Museum.

[George Hartzell <hartzell@cs.berkeley.edu>]

I'd like to recommend a field trip to folks in the San Francisco Bay
Area.  The Oakland Museum (www.museumca.org) has three exhibits that
are interesting:

  Capturing Light: Masterpieces of California Photography, 1850-2000.

  Every Worker is an Organizer (photographs by David Bacon).

  After the Storm: Bob Walker and the Art of Environmental
  Photography.

The first covers a lot of photograhic ground and seems to be
[partially] designed to show off the museum's permanent collection.

The second is a photojournalistic essay about agricultural laborers in
the central valley.  In addition to the topic, it's a very nice set of
black and white photographs.  I haven't seen that many photographs
(~100) that showed a single signature, it was clear that a single
person shot them.

The third is a collection of photo's by a long time Bay Area resident
that gives a feel about how we have been changing the landscape.

All three are well worth the trip.

g.